Hamilton Accies deny bid for Kris Boyd

Pre-season friendlies are also announced.

Hamilton Accies chairman Les Gray this week admitted he hopes to lure a couple of new faces to the club – but said rumours of former Rangers striker Kris Boyd joining the fold are off the mark.

The New Douglas Park supremo confirmed the newly-promoted side are interested in bringing new players, potentially of current top-flight status, on board as the Lanarkshire outfit bid to stay in the Premiership next season.

But he denied any talks with former Kilmarnock striker and free agent Kris Boyd, who is now linked with a move to Aberdeen or Dundee United.

Gray said: “We’ve been asked on numerous occasions now if we would be interested in Kris Boyd and my answer to that is yes we would be interested in him, but we have not been in contact with him and that’s not on our agenda either. It’s all rumours.

“We have other players in mind, but for now we are concentrating on sorting out our current squad’s contracts.”

With terms already struck with Jason Scotland this week, as well as the re-signings of Jon Routledge and Martin Canning and contract extensions for Tony Andreu, Louis Longridge, Michael Devlin and Ziggy Gordon, it is understood manager Alex Neil will also put pen to paper this week.

Gray (right) added: “I’m happy with the way things are going and we expect to sit down with Alex (Neil) this week too.

“We are organising a number of pre-season friendlies and we hope to arrange games with Newcastle and Sunderland. We’ve been in touch but now it’s a matter of availability.”

Accies will face the recently relegated Hearts in a pre-season friendly at New Douglas Park on Wednesday, July 9, at 7.45pm.

They will then defend the D&K Lafferty Cup in the Oban Saints Tournament on Saturday, July 12, before facing Dumbarton at home on Tuesday, July 15 ,at 7.45pm. Next up is Spennymoor Town at The Brewery Field at 7.15pm on Thursday, July 24, and then Clydebank JFC versus an Accies XI on Monday, July 28, at 7pm at Holm Park, Yoker.

Meanwhile, Les hopes to tempt fans back to the club, now that they’re in the top flight.

And the club’s season ticket prices are likely to help in that regard.

An adult season ticket (18-64) costs £310, while over-65s get in for £175. In both cases up to two under-18 season ticket books can be obtained for free, working out at £10 and £2.89 per game, respectively.

Under-18s get in for £60, and disabled £50 (including carer where applicable).

Les hopes this, and the club’s success, brings people through the turnstiles again.

He said: “We’re looking at a different fan-base now to what we had before. When we went up the last time we had a lot of young fans and lots of them have been lost for a number of reasons.

“I feel that we’re all about our young players, we play exciting, attacking football, and everyone can see that, so I hope we can attract people back.”

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